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Postby xerubus on Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:51 pm

Just sharing some B&W shots which I took today and quite like.

C&C always welcome.

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Postby greencardigan on Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:47 am

Good stuff :)

I like the simplicity of the third shot. Nothing distracting in the background.
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Postby Greg B on Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:50 am

Love the "gritty" feel Mark, reminds me of Tri-X printed on Grade 4 paper
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Postby dooda on Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:25 am

I Like the grit too, but the overthetop contrast feels just a little too garish and contrived.
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Postby Jonas on Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:25 am

Nice selection of photos. I too enjoyed the old school feel of #3, very tough, very Australian.

#5 could possibly be improved with a reworked crop, I feel his face or nose is jammed up against the edge of the photo.

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Postby jben_net on Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:34 am

Yeah I really like the photojournalist style here.....It's good to see black and white digital photography being done well.

What do you think the best way of converting to black and white is? I've heard that the image > adjustments > desaturate command in photoshop looses the least detail, and is superiour to image > mode > greyscale..

just a minor technical thing! I'm pretty pedantic about PP :)
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Postby xerubus on Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:25 am

thanks everyone for the comments ... much appreciated.

greencardigan... ironically the simple shots are always the better ones...

jonas... unfortunately #5 is full frame.... turned around .. click... one of those shots that you just catch out of the corner of your eye but is gone too quickly to compose right... there will always be a next time though :)

jben_net .... I use the carr b&w method... i posted a thread a long time about it: http://www.dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php? ... carr#46383

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